Snag a botanical bargain at Colorado Garden & Home Show plant sale

Bright buttercup-yellow ranunculus will be among the plants at the Colorado Garden & Home Show plant sale. (Provided by Colorado Garden Show, Inc).

Quick. You, with the oh-so-sick-of-winter sad face: If you’ve got a spot in the house to keep some perennials happy for a month or two (or maybe three, should we be so lucky as to get snow dumps that continue into April), this is your lucky day.

Today (Wednesday Feb. 13), the Colorado Garden & Home Show culls its display gardens of anything that’s fading or looking a little bit like it’s spent some time under the hot lights. And then the Arvada Rotary sells them to the public for $2 a pot. The sale runs from noon to 8 p.m. today, the same hours as the show itself, at the Colorado Convention Center. To find the plant sale, enter the Convention Center near the Big Blue Bear and go up the escalator with the laughtrack. It’s right by the door that takes you into the show.

(You don’t have to buy admission to the Garden Show to shop the plant sale, but the Rotary volunteers will hold your plants for you if you want to).

Hyacinths at the Colorado Garden & Home Show at the Colorado Convention Center (Provided by the Colorado Garden Show, Inc.)

You’re likely to see tulips (lots of white and purple ones) and hyacinths (whites, pinks, blues). But every year is different, and there’s no telling what might be in the sale. Chief show PR maven Jennifer Wills says to expect some Gerbera daisies, foxglove, and ranunculus, too. Some will be annuals to brighten your home for a few days; others might be perennials or bulbs that’ll add color to your landscape for years.

I was at the show Saturday and saw a lot of beautiful daffodils, so perhaps some of those deer-resistant winners will be on sale as well. The Colorado Garden & Home Show runs through Sunday.

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Becky Hensley is the co-founder of Share Denver - a community craft space in Park Hill. She's also the proud Ninja-in Chief of the Denver Craft Ninjas -- a women’s crafting collective dedicated to keeping the DIY spirit alive through laughter, shared skills, and cocktails.

Colorado native Mark Montano is an international designer, artist, author and television personality. He has appeared on TLC’s “While You Were Out” and “10 Years Younger,” as well as “My Celebrity Home” on the Style Network, “She’s Moving In” on We TV, “The Tony Danza Show” on ABC, and “My Home 2.0” on Fox.